Show 1 ARREST OF HOTEL RUNNER CHARGED WITHCROSSING THE DEPOT DEADLINE < J < Toney Sorensen is Discharged but He and Other Runners are Impressively Impres-sively Warned The rights of hackmen at the Various depots and the duties of policemen at the sames places were ventilated in Judge TImmonys court yesterday when Toney Sorenson rpnner for the Cuilen hotel was placed upon trial for trespass it having been alleged by Officer Fitzmaurlce that In had vio hated the ordinance by crossing the deadline arjd soliciting patronage for his hostelry Sorensen did not deny that he had done so but claimed that he knew the people were going to the Cullen and he merely approached them with the idea of aiding them with their luggage The expected guests however refused to pay omnibus fare and reached the hotel via street car When the ofllcer had called Sorensons attention to the fact that he was on forbidden ground he had retired like a good little run nor that he Is and had not even sassed the olllcer Fitzmaurice said that he had had more trouble with Toney than with all the runners combined He was whut might be Justly called the terror uf the Rio Grande and ho had no moro icspect for the law than a Jackrabblt had for a Job In China at the present time Toney was discharged the Judge remarking re-marking that he had no doubt that he was guilty under the ordinance but it also appeared that runners had boon allowed to cross the deadline when they believed that there were passpn gems in sight who might wish to put up at their hotel In the Judges mind this was all wrong The deadline was made to keep the hotel runner from molesting passengers If any passenger passen-ger signified a wish to stop at any particular par-ticular hotel it was the duty of the runner to remain without the deadline Ho had no right to cross It under any circumstances The defendant Is discharged remarked re-marked the Judge as It Is evident that there has been a great deal of leniency allowed In the past too much In fact but hereafter the runner who violates the oidinance in the slightest t degree will be given the full benefit of the law In casehe is arrested which I sincerely hope he will be That law has got to be obeyed as long as I am on the bench at least Several runners who were present asked questions as to what they shoulj do In the future and the Judge merely replied that the courtroom was not a law school The7ordlnancc was there and he who ranfpr a hotel had better read as h mn lat any other more convenient tIincgTr The full pqtfaTty attaching to a violation vio-lation of the riW awaits each and every one otV you however he remarked re-marked concluslon and as the runners run-ners descended the stairs some expressed ex-pressed themselves as lorry that Toney had brought the matter up as thy realized that several little I favors shown them in the past would bo wanting In the futune |